Dr Ritu Nehra is a HOD of the Hindi Department in the Alankar PG Girls College, Jaipur. She did BA, MA and Phd from University Of Rajasthan. She also passed the UGC NET in 2012.

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Being the HOD, what are your roles and responsibilities towards the students in Alankar PG Girls College?

“To ensure good professional practice, standards, and quality of teaching to pupils”

Being the Head of the Department of Hindi I want to provide strong academic leadership. It leads us to manage and develop the department to ensure it achieves the highest possible standards of excellence in all its activities. Our campus ensures the good professional practice, standards, quality of teaching, learning of subject/s through proper dialogue with the teachers under the direction of the other stakeholders.

How do you tend to establish health relations with students and fellow faculty?

“Active engagement, constructive feedback and effective communication for students maintain healthy relations on campus”

Effective communication, active engagement, constructive feedback and robust support maintain healthy relationships on campus. I avoid sharing negative thoughts, actions, criticisms, and sarcastic snipes. Be less judgmental and accepting of others. A positive attitude is contagious and inspiring to work alongside. Make it your new daily habit to bring a positive attitude to work

How do you try to bring in a practical approach to subjects and make them industry-oriented?

“Organize mock interviews, aptitude development classes and relevant training for pupils”

I use the formula of learning beyond the classroom to promote practical learning rather than focusing alone on theoretical knowledge. Practical work promotes experiential learning. Since most of our students are from rural backgrounds, they lack communication. I focus on this right from their commencement in college. Every week we have 2 or 3 classes apart from the curriculum only for the purpose of improving communication and boosting the confidence of these students. We have separate staff to handle this task and hire people from outside to improve communication skills. Our faculties make them face the interview and outside world by making communication a priority. Also, we focus on pre-placement training from the third year, organize mock interviews, aptitude development classes and relevant training needed for placements to compete with other institutes. 

How do you strategize the curriculum and get updated to make it befitting for the students in Alankar PG Girls College?

“Revise curriculum, update other processes and receive feedback from stakeholders in the campus”

Curriculum is designed and updated by the University of Rajasthan for various U.G and P.G programmes. Whenever there is need, a regular revision and updating process takes place based on the feedback from all stakeholders.

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What are your views on the placements and higher education of students from Alankar PG Girls College?

“Wide range of career options in content writer, voice associates, blogger, speech writing, teaching,etc are available to pupils”

By choosing a subject like Hindi, Students have a wide range of career options to choose from like journalism, Screenwriting, etc. They can work as a Translator or as content writer, voice associates, blogger, speech writing, teaching, proof-reader’s, etc.

How do you help your student cope with the competition being so high in the outside world?

“Counseling sessions, artificial rewards and more are helpful for students to compete with the outside world”

By creating a classroom climate of respect and empathy, we always treat each other in a caring way. Also, I Refrain from comparing students or pitting them against one another. We are offering artificial rewards and organizing counseling sessions by inviting various professionals.

Do you have any extracurricular activities to enhance the skills of the students or expose them to real-world challenges?

“Creative writing, debates, speech competitions, dramatics, poetic competitions, and more are available to students”

The Hindi Department provides ample opportunities to the students to expose them to real world challenges. Our campus is organizing Hindi Sahitya mandal along with activities like creative writing, debates and speech competitions, dramatics, poetic competitions, movie screening, visit to Jaipur literature fest, and many more.

What are the challenges you faced to uplift the quality of education of Alankar PG Girls College?

“Lack of a high dropout rate, use of information and communication technology are the greatest challenges faced by us”

Some of the common classroom challenges faced by teachers include lack of high dropout rate, use of information and communication technology, team work, minimal personal time, etc. Apart from these, working towards long term goals, arguments/student excuses, lack of motivation among students etc.

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What are the interventions and approaches you bring in apart from the curriculum to train/teach the students?

“Organizing quiz sessions, periodical and monthly tests to enhance their knowledge”

I prefer continually monitoring progress of the students by asking them to revise the lesson that has been taught in the class. We organize quiz sessions, periodical and monthly tests to enhance their knowledge. I give plenty of feedback to the students regarding their improvement and give them assignments to write poems or stories and different types of presentations in the classroom etc.